The Portland daily press., 1887-12-29
HARRY mcNEALLY DENIES
That He Said Some Of the Things
Attributed to Him.

SAoo, Dec. 2S.-Harry McNeally, who
reached home from his Halifax trip, on the
Pullman last night, said this morning, in re-
ply to a question as to the truth of assertions
of the Halifax Herald: "The statement
made by that paper that said the bank
would not lose dollar. is a downright false
hood. / never made any such statement. l
did tell them in Halifax that neither nor
nv brother wanted the tank to lose dollar
by this trouble, and that If ever the time
came when we could we would make good
to them every dollar.
81 never made any statement whatever
about where the bonds were or had been.
was asked in Halifax if brought home the
bonds with me after my first trip. and told
them that would neither deny nor affirm
anything regarding the matter. That was
all the information they ever got from me
regarding the bonds"
"Did Frank come to Halifax of his own
accord, or at the banks request?" asked the
reporter.
eNeither the bank nor anybody else knew
he was coming to this Continent till several
days after he had left Liverpool, when a let
ter was received from him."
'sDid he come to Halifax for the purpose
of making any trade with the bank for a
return Of the bonds?"
II am tired and sick of seeing so much in
the newspapers about trade with the bank.
No trade has been made, nor has there ever
been any talk of a trade either by the bank
or by Frank" n,
ha ri a.
porter. ,,,
them in time" was Harry's reply"
Ex-Treasurer K. p. Burnham, who is still
a trustee of the institution, arrived from
Roxbury, Mass, ON the noon train today
and spent some time in consultation with
several of the trustees. He said: II DOM
put any confidence in Frank McNeally,'
s'His brother Harry, believe is acting in all
sincerity, but 1 take no stock In Frank s
he did is not worthy of anybody's confidence
/ wouldn't believe any story he might tell. l
don't deny that the story about the bonds
being in Egypt came from him, but his say
ing SO wouldn't make me believe 1t. The
bonds may be in Egypt and they ma may moi not,
vault where they belong.
Halifax Opinion.
HALIFAX, Dec. 2S.-Frank McNeally has
not been heard from since he left Halifax
Monday evening, but It'll sconfdently believed
he is still in some part of ithe province or
New Brunswick.
The Halifax Mail publishes the following
editorially: 1.-THE circumstances attending
the compromise which the authorities of the
Saco bank have evidently made with Frank
c. McNeally, the youthful embezzler, are
most certainly of very suspicious charac-
ter By compromising with this young thief
the bank authorities have placed a premi-
um on fraud. The public would taboo man
who had been bribed to aid a criminal to es-
cape, and there shonld be some way OF Sc
yerely Furnishing the bank authorities II they
have been bribed by the return of the bonds
to connive at McNeally's escape from. the
Just penalties of his crime. Already there
are on this side of the border some so Amer
lean defaulters whose thefts aggregate about
S4,eO0,0O0. The McNeally case should i'm
press the American Senate with the imp0r-
tance of ratifying the convention framed for
the extradition of these criminels who now
find safe retreat in Canada, where every
facility is offered for the escape OF default
ers Such heavy premium is placed upon
the commission of these crimes that conf
dence in commercial institutions is sadly
shaken"